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Oct 7, 2016
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My battery is performing very poorly, lasting at most one hour on a single charge. I'm not disputing that, as a 8-year-old battery on an 8-year-old MacBook is bound to have degraded a lot. But 175 loadcycles has to be erroneous, right? Furthermore, my battery certainly was not manufactured this year, and should be the original that came with the laptop. How trustworthy is the manufacture date, loadcycles, and capacity reported by coconutBattery?

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EDIT: I frequently leave the laptop charging at night and while working at my desk - can that have degraded the battery this much with so few cycles? Even then, in so many years it must have accumulated more cycles than that...
 
Battery is like muscle, it degrades fast without exercise. Your battery would have been in better shape if it had 1000+ cycles after 8 years. People erroneously assume that low cycle count will increase the resale value. Somewhat true for the relatively new device not so much for the 8 year old.
 
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